School of Education

Mr Leonardo Franchi

Leonardo Franchi
  • University Teacher in Religious Education (Creativity Culture and Faith)

telephone: 01413303433
email: Leonardo.Franchi@glasgow.ac.uk


Research Interests

The interplay between the educational and catechetical paradigms of Religious Education

The place of the liberal arts in contemporary education

The shape of early Christian education up to the time of St. Augustine of Hippo (died AD 430)

Career history

2005 – present: University Teacher, University of Glasgow, Department of Religious Education, and now Creativity, Culture and Faith Research & Knowledge Transfer Group

2004 - 2009:    Assessment Moderator, Open University (BA, Applied Theology, Maryvale Institute)

2000 – 2008:   Associate Tutor, Maryvale Institute, Birmingham

1993 - 2005:   Teacher, St. Mary’s, Alexandria

1986 -1990:     Lecturer in Italian (part-time), Department of Adult and Continuing Education (DACE), University of Glasgow

Jump to: 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2007
Number of items: 9.

2011

Franchi, L. (2011) Healing the wounds: St Augustine, catechesis and religious education today. Religious Education, 106 (3). pp. 299-311. ISSN 0034-4087

Franchi, L. (2011) Review of 'First communion: ritual, church and popular religious identity' by P. McGrail. Usus Antiquior, 2 (1). pp. 78-80. ISSN 1757-8949

Franchi, L. and McKinney, S., (Eds.) (2011) A Companion to Catholic Education. Gracewing, Leominster, UK. ISBN 9780852447574

Franchi, L. (2011) Active participation in the liturgy. In: Franchi, L. and MacKinney, S. (eds.) A Companion to Catholic Education. Gracewing, Leominster, UK. ISBN 9780852447574

Franchi, L. (2011) Can we have 'Second Spring' of Catholic Higher Education? Journal of Catholic Higher Education, 30 (1). pp. 39-56. ISSN 1948-5891

Franchi, L., and McKinney, S. (2011) An introduction to Catholic theological thinking. In: Franchi, L. and McKinney, S. (eds.) A Companion to Catholic Education. Gracewing, Leominster, UK. ISBN 9780852447574

2010

Franchi, L. (2010) Review of 'Why choose the liberal arts?' by Mark William Roche. MercatorNet .

2009

Franchi, L. (2009) S. McKinney (ed.), 'Faith Schools in the 21st Century'. Flourish (April). p. 19.

2007

Franchi, L., (Ed.) (2007) An anthology of Catholic teaching on education. Scepter, London. ISBN 9780906138694

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Leonardo Franchi  is the Quality Assurance Officer for the School of Education. He teaches on a wide range of ITE programmes. He is the Course Convener of Theology in Education 1 and Theology in Education 2 and is the joint Programme Leader of the MEd (Religion, Education and Culture). He is a member of the Access to Primary Education committee and (from 2011) sits on the Executive of the Catholic Education Commission. He is an elected member of Senate for the School of Education.

Academic and Professional Body Membership

General Teaching Council of Scotland

Catholic Theological Association of Great Britain

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Associate Member of the Society for Catholic Liturgy